Danik wrote:Shadowood wrote:John jacob astor wrote:my question is, what happens when the port is taken over? if egypt upgrades all buildings to level 20 in Baramas, but then spain takes over, does spain have to start the buildings fresh or do they retain egypt's buildings? and when egypt retakes the port, are their buildings returned or do they have to start from scratch?
I would imagine that the buildings would not transfer, but if/when a nation retakes the port, that their investment in the buildings is still there.
I would rather any and all investment in port buildings is lost along with control. Why? Because then a nation who had invested heavily in their ports would be driven to defend them to the fullest extent, rather than the 'Let them go today, we can reclaim them in 3 days time when pay-outs drop' routine. It would make losing a port a much more expensive option, and gaining one a far more powerful event.
but how would a nation defend its ports when all it would take to lose one would be some player dropping a ton of gold shortly before update and using some charity donations? even if they manage to take it back and punish the usurper they would still have lost the port, and therefore the buildings. this would discourage nations from investing in buildings if they can lose them so easily.
I think a good compromise would be that the buildings do belong to the port and are not just "destroyed" if the port changes hands. but the nation that built the buildings will enjoy the benefits immediately after building them, if a new nation takes the port those buildings are still loyal to the last nation, and the new nation can NOT benefit from them, not until they have owned the port long enough to obtain its loyalty, meanwhile until the ports loyalty changes, if the former nation regains it the benefits are immediately given back.
in fact we can make it to where in order to speed up the change in loyalty, you can spend gold bars, or some other resource. I would prefer bars since this would raise the demand of bars.